Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-21
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LABOR NOTES.

now ready TO 90 out On the first rise.
Michigan chair factories can't fill
their orders, though running overtime.
All Of the mines in and around Nan
ticoke, Pa, are 0 in full operation.
trade continues good, the demand be-
ing fsir and prices firm.
The Cuban Federation of Cigarmak-
ers has Issued "a label for use on all
goods manufactured by their organiza-
The brickmakers in all large cities
are of the opinion that the demand for
brick will be twenty-five per cent
ahead of last year.
A conference is to be held soon be-
tween representatives of the glass mix
ers and tcasers and the Manufacturers
association.
Builders propose TO agitate for the
insertion in contracts of a clause re-
lieving them from their undertakings
when a strike takes place.
The geographical extent of the Hi
nois coal field within the border of the
state may be placed in round numbers
at 30, 1000 square miles.
c. M. Henderson, the shoe contrac-
or of the Riverside penitentiary, will,
after his contract expires on November
/. remove the machinery to Dixon,
Illinois.
The legislature of Connecticut has
just passed "A law restricting factory
labor to ten hours per day, or sixty
hours per week, for women and child
rem.
The wages of two hundred employees
of Arms, Bell Il Co, manufacturers of
nuts and bolts at Youngstown, Ohio,
have been voluntarily advanced ten
per cent.
The b~ricklayers' union of Brooklyn
have arranged with their bosses on a
scale of prices for the ensuing year.
1t is the same as the old-forty-iiyc
cents an hour.
The Knights of Labor IN Norwich
Conn, have formed a joint stock COM
pany and purchased the knitting fac
tory in that village with a capital of
$1,000. in 600 shares OF So each.
4 great many carpenters, ~joiners,
bricklayers and other tradesmcn are
rushing west, expecting TO pick mp
work ut once. In some places. notably
at Chicago, they have been disap-
pointed.
Trade organizations are springing
up among manufactures, and compar-
ative few trades remain unorganizcd.
Production is under better control than
ever, and capacity is being rapidly ex-
panded.
Sixty meat dealers ut Akron, Ohio,
recently refused to handle carcasses
shipped thither from Chicago 10y Ar
mour & Co. The firm opened three
retail markets and speedily brought
the boycott TO a close.
The Century Publishing company
and the New York Stats Zeitung years
ago adopted the profit-sharing system,
and the latter concern recently shared
profits with its employees at the rate of
10 per cent on their salaries.
The steel manufacturing industries
of Syracuse, N. Y, are to be materi-
ally increased. There is a contem-
plated improvement at the SandersOn
steel works which will involve an eX-
penditure of more than 100000.
The various nail manufacturing firms
are piling up stock in their warehouses
now. 1t would he well for feeders and
others, thinks the National Labor Trib-
une, to be stocking up" their ducats
for n rainy day in the near future.
A Moscow (Russia) firm has ordered
al&ehorse power engine from West
ind yuse, at P%ittsburg, and a Yoko-
hama (Japan) firm, has ordered one
60-horse power, while n 1%50-horse
power engine is being made for
Australia.
Gas as a fuel is gaining ground.
The system is being carefully studied
in the East. The manufacturers in
Jersey City are making preparations to
use IT. A locomotive works and roll
ing mill at Patterson have decided to
use it.
A plate mill is to be built at Pitts
burg 263 feet lorg, 80 feet wide, with
two wings As feet wide. The horizon
tai rolls will be ~ inches long and 30
inches in diameter, and will roll 80 ton
ingots. II will be the largest mill of
the kind in the world.
Employers are here and there dis
cussing in an informal way the merits
and dement's of dividing profits with
wor Non In the New ENGLAND